Better Pipe Organ Database

E.F. Walcker Orgelbau Opus 237 (1869)

First Church, Unitarian
Boston, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Facade elevation drawing (Photograph from an archival source: courtesy Gerhard Walcker-Mayer, submitted by Jim Lewis/Jim Lewis)

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (on left) (Photograph (ca. 1870) from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

39 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2012-04-15 - Identified through online information from Jim Lewis. -- Three manuals, thirty-eight stops. -Database Manager

2012-04-17 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2017-02-11 - Updated by Barbara Owen Destroyed when the church burned down in 1968. -Database Manager

2017-12-01 - Dedicated on October 7, 1869, with the following music played: Â Â Â Toccata in F. - J.S. Bach (Mr. Eugene Thayer) Â Â Â Improvisation (J. H. Willcox, Doc. Doc.) Â Â Â Fifth Organ Concerto - Handel (Mr. Thayer) Â Â Â Fourth Organ Sonata - Mendelssohn (Mr. B. J. Lang) Â Â Â Improvisation (Mr. Willcox) Â Â Â Variations in A flat - Thiele (Mr. Thayer) -Database Manager

2021-10-28 - Walcker's Opus 237 -Jim Lewis

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter January 1969

Boston, Massachusetts
First Church, Unitarian

E. F. Walcker Orgelbau   1869                    3 manuals, 39 stops, 49 ranks
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         MANUAL I. -- HAUPTWERK                MANUAL III. -- SWELL ORGAN
     16' Principal               56         8' Principal               56
      8' Principal               56         8' Flöte           (wood)  56
      8' Hohlflöte       (wood)  56         8' Lieblich Gedekt (wood)  56
      8' Gamba                   56         8' Dolce                   56
      8' Gedekt          (wood)  56         8' Æoline                  56
      4' Octave                  56         4' Fugara                  56
      4' Rohrflöte               56         4' Traverse Flöte          56
  2 2/3' Nasard                  56         2' Piccolo                 56
      2' Octave                  56            Cimbel 4 ranks         224
         Mixture 5 ranks        280         8' Physharmonica           56
      8' Trompet                 56              (free reeds)

         MANUAL II. -- SOLO ORGAN              PEDALE
     16' Bordun          (wood)  56        16' Principal       (wood)  30
      8' Principal               56        16' Violone         (wood)  30
      8' Spitzflöte              56        16' Subbass         (wood)  30
      8' Bordun          (wood)  56    10 2/3' Grosse Quinte   (wood)  30    
      8' Salicional              56         8' Violoncello     (wood)  30
      4' Octave                  56         8' Octave                  30
      4' Flute d'Amour           56        16' Bombardon               30         
      2' Flautino                56         8' Trompet                 30
         Cornet 4 ranks         224
      8' Fagott and Clarinet     56

         COLLECTIV PEDALE, ETC.
      1. Pedal zum Hauptwerk
      2. Pedal zum Solo Manual
      3. Mezzo Forte
      4. Volles Werk
      5. Coppel zur Physharmonica
      6. Tremolo zur Physharmonica
      7. Volle Schwellung
      8. Man. 2 piano
      9. Man. 2 forte
     10. Man. 1 Rohrwerk
     11. Coppel Man. 1 and 2
     12. Coppel Man. 2 and 3
     13. Calcant


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-12-01]